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XSEED Reveals 2013 Lineup

XSEED just announced the company's 2013 lineup. It includes two RPGs for PlayStation Vita, one for Nintendo 3DS, one for Steam, and a little action game. All of these join Pandora's Tower for a massive 2013 for the company.

I'm happy to see Rune Factory back in XSEED's hands. The company did a fantastic job with RF: Frontier, and Natsume has done some pretty sloppy localization jobs lately, especially with RF: Tides of Destiny. Now I'm super-jazzed for RF 4!

I expected Ys Celceta would come but nice to finally have a confirmation. Along with this, Soul Sacrifice, and Muramasamy Vita will be happy this year.I'll also buy Ys I & II Chronicles+ of course, haven't played my PSP version yet which I may just keep sealed now. Will look into Killer Is Dead, Grasshopper are talented but I haven't enjoyed everything they produce. Same goes for Valhalla Knights 3, I hear it looks better than the other games in the series. Now I'll have to pay attention since it's been announced. As for Rune Factory, I have 2 and Tides unplayed, I will make sure to at least try both before 4 comes out.

Sadly there's no TiTS SC here. Oh well. Glad to see the rest of you really enjoy the announcements, and now the VITA has at least one exclusive that I'd buy. Still needs more to warrant a system purchase, but I know I'll be jealous later this year when you guys are enjoying Celceta.

I bought a Vita a little while back, mainly to play Persona 4 and Disgaea 3 (2 games I own on other consoles that just seem better suited to portable systems), and resigned myself to hope for more RPGs in the near future. Looks like that is starting to happen, with this and the recent Muramasa announcement. Very welcome news.

Agreed. It’s like watching everyone else get what they want for Christmas while you get a labelmaker.

Happy for others, and glad XSEED is delivering games folks want, but I’m worried the Trails window is closing if it’s not happening in 2013.

I couldn't disagree with this statement more. This is Falcom, they of the many ports and re-releases. For all we know they could be working on getting TitS games on steam, and the presence of PS3 ports provides yet another possibility. With steam especially there's no real "closing window". So don't give up!

I couldn't disagree with this statement more. This is Falcom, they of the many ports and re-releases. For all we know they could be working on getting TitS games on steam, and the presence of PS3 ports provides yet another possibility. With steam especially there's no real "closing window". So don't give up!

A plethora of port possibilities for sure, but not much help without an English script. If XSEED has some kind of formula for text amount vs. sales estimate, it doesn’t bode well...I just hope they're far enough along to be pot committed. And I don't know what to make of the Aeria/iOS situation.

I’m not giving up yet, just less optimistic than I was before these announcements for fear resource allocation may be trailing off...

Well at this point assuming all these Ys games on steam are doing well for them I'd be surprised if they didn't bring Ys VI to steam.

I don't think they can.I know Wyrdwad mentioned something about not being able to use the localization Konami did, and they wouldn't be able to do their own translations of it.Same with The Legend of Heroes games that Namco Bandai did for PSP.

I don't think they can.I know Wyrdwad mentioned something about not being able to use the localization Konami did, and they wouldn't be able to do their own translations of it.Same with The Legend of Heroes games that Namco Bandai did for PSP.

Yup. It would be too much work for a old port of Ys VI and the PC versions of the Gagharv trilogy are night and day different from the PSP versions that even if they wanted to use Namco Bandai's awful localizations it wouldn't be worth it.

My bad, I thought you mentioned something to that effect, or was it just for the Gagharv Trilogy?Or I could just be lost and confused in familiar recruitment mode regarding NNK.It would be swell anyways to have an XSEED translation of The Ark of Napishtim.